Tuesday, March 1, 2016

To celebrate I LOVE READING!, I recently presented at Pillow Elementary, a wonderful multicultural
school, and also my local. I pass it every day when I walk. After the event, I was thrilled to get a nice testimonial from the
faculty, and along with it, a packet of Thank Yous from the students. I love reading notes from children I've presented to. Since I performed for them around February 14, some were combined with a
Valentine message: extra joy! Among the precious comments, here are a few
gems, a few of them bluntly honest, for your enjoyment.

You are nice and active.

Thank you so much for reading to us. I love you so much, Mrs. Nason.

Thank you for reading us a story. I like when the hugs started.

I like the two parts...when you sing a song and you make us laugh.

Thank you Ms. Nason for your two plays.

Thank you for the three stories.

To the Best Reader on earth. THE BEST!

Thanks for telling us those awesome stories and for acting it out. Really, those stories were cool and long.

THANK YOU, Ms. Nason. Also, since you're from the UK, have you seen the
Mallard steam locomotive? It looks like this (great drawing of a train). Answer
here: ______________

Dear Blog Friend

My mum (in England) and I (wherever I happened to be living) used to write each other every week...snail-mail letters, of course. When we both got computers and email became popular, we wrote every day...about everything, from the weather to what our neighbors were doing, from the political situation to popular shows on the telly. When she died, not only did I miss my lovely mum, I missed our regular written conversations; and I lost my daily writing fix. Now I admit the messages were sometimes ridiculously banal but they were often hilarious and always fun to receive. So to start with at least, I'm going to imagine my blog is a note to my mum in the hope that you'll like reading it as much I liked reading her notes to me.